Single and double flat-curtain-rod bracket



arch 4 1924.

A. ACKER SINGLE AND DOUBLE FLAT CURTAIN ROD BRACKET Filed May 29 1922 Patent ar. a, ra e. i9d,i

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AARON ACKER, or OGDENSBUEG, NEW roan, ssrenon 'ro 'rnn NEWELL MFG. 00. mo,

' or OGDENSBUBG, NEW YORK, A ,conron-n'rion or MAINE.

SINGLE AND DOUBLE ELAT-CURTAIN-ROD BRACKET. Application filed May 29, 1922. Serial No. 564,555.

To all whom it may concern: Fig. 4 is a plan view of a blank showing 5 Be it known that I, AARON Aonnn, acitizen the double form of bracket.

of the United States, residing at Ogdens- Fig. 5 is a view in front elevation of the burg, in the county of St. Lawrence and double bracket with the rod holding fingers 5 State of New York, have invented new and bent to final position.

useful Improvements in Single and Double Fig. 6 is aview'in side elevation of the Flat-Curtain-Rod Brackets, of which the bracket shown in Figure 5 following is a specification. Fig. 7 is a view in plan of the bracket The present invention relates to improveshown in Figures 5 and 6 with portions'of 10 ments in brackets for fiat curtain rods and the curtain rods in position.

method for making the same, and has for Referring to the drawings by numerals, 65 its object to provide a bracket which may like numbers indicating like parts in the be cheaply and expeditiously produced, folseveral views, and referring first to Fig. 1, lowing my method, from suitable blanks of 10 indicates the bracket blank after the first sheet metal, with minimum waste of metal, operation of stamping out and dividing the which will give an integral rigid bracket finger 11 from the body, the blank from 70 without the necessity of assembling and sewhich the bracket is stamped being indicated curing together a plurality of parts, and in dotted lines. It is to be understood that which will present a bracket of pleasing apthis blank, indicated by dotted lines in Fig.

pearance and one which may be readily se- 1, is not necessarily a single piece or unit,

cured in place and which will permit the as it may, of course, be a portion of a large 75 ready placing or removing of the curtain sheet of stock from which the bracket blank rods thereon, the construction further being may be struck either singly or plurally, desuch that when in place the rods will be pendent on whether a single die or a pluheld securely and rigidly in place. rality of dies are used. The bracket blank Two forms of the invention are shown and 10 will be stamped out and the finger 11 described, one designed for use with a single separated from the body by the vertically flat curtain rod and the other for use with disposed cut a with the ba'se'12 of the finger a plurality of curtain rods. formed by .the transverse cut b extending In the manufacture of articles of this kind inwardly substantially to the median line it is essential that they be constructed at a of the body 10 to the bending line indicated 3 minimum cost both as to material and labor, .by dotted lines in Fig. 1. The holes l 'may and that, so far as possible, waste of stock or may not be formed simultaneously with in their production be eliminated. It is dethe dieing-out operation. H

sirable, for reasons of economy, that the. By this method of cutting it will be seen parts be as few as possible in order to elimithat there is a minimum amount of waste 9 nate the cost of assembling. The brackets and the single operation puts the blank into must be of such construction that they may form for bending the finger into this final be readily attached to window casings and position. By means of the vertical and 40 the like, and they must be capable of sustransverse cuts aand b I am able to reduce taining, without breaking, bending or very materially the amount of metal'over loosening from their fastenings, a reasontypes of brackets known to me, in which able weight. the finger supporting base, which is bent at In the drawings herewith I have illusright anglestothe body to throw the finger trated two forms of my invention and in into proper position, is formed entirely outsaid drawings: side of the bracket body and then bent in- Fig. 1 is a plan view of a blank from ward, as distinguished from my method of which the bracket is formed. forming my base 12 entirely within the body Fig. 2 shows the bracket in front elevaof the bracket and then bending such base 60 tion with the rod receiving finger bent into to bring the finger into proper position.

final position, the rod being indicated in As shown in Figure 2, when the base 12 dotted lines. is bent along the dotted lines indicated in Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the bracket Figure 1, it forms a notch in the lower corshown in Figure 2. nor of the plate 10, this portion of the plate,

serving, of course, to form the plate 12, the inwardly extending transverse cut 6 permitting the bending of the base inwardly so as to bring the supporting finger into substantially a central position relative to the plate 10. As will be apparent from Figure 3, this base portion 10 is a very substantial area so that it forms a strong rigid support for the finger ll.

By this construction, produced by following my method the brackets may be very economically produced and but little stock wasted, due to the fact that the finger supporting base is formed directly from the metal of the body of the bracket instead of being formed outside the area of the bracket and then thrown in by bending to its final position.

In the form of the invention shown in Figure 4- a double bracket is provided. The bracket plate 14, may, of course, take designs other than that specific design disclosed and will be struck from a blank of substantially the area shown by dotted lines.

As in the single form shown and described above, it will be observed that the bases 15 of the fingers are provided from the body of the bracket itself and additionally in the double form the fingers '16 are struck directly from the bracket plate 14. The plate may be died out and the fingers and bases struck at the same time, the fingers being severed from the body of the bracket along the vertical lines 0 and divided from each other by the central cut 05, while the bases 15 are separated by the transverse cuts 6 and by the single transverse cut 7, these cuts 6 and f extending to the bending line indicated in dotted lines in Figure 4.

The bases 15 and fingers 16 thus severed may be bent outwardly to the position shown in Figs. 5 and 63, leaving the plate 14 with t e centrally disposed and symmetrical aperture shown in Figure 5.

It will be seen that with this construction, and following my methods of making, the fingers and bases are produced entirely from the body of the bracket so that, given the outside dimensions of the bracket to be made, the amount of stock necessary to produce that bracket is at once determined, for the integral base and fingers are always produced from the metal lying within the exterior dimensions of the plate.

This very materially reduces the amount of metal used in forming double brackets, for it has been necessary heretofore to throw the brackets out from the exterior edges of the blank and then bend them inwardly by reverse bends to bring them into proper position within the margin of the blank.

Such variations in the construction and method herein disclosed as are mere varia tions in design or mechanical skill are, of course, to be considered as within the range of my invention.

1 claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a curtain rod bracket having a body-portion, rod'supporting fingers and finger bases, said fingers and bases being formed from a common central section of forced in reversed positions from the central section and lying entirely within the margin of the body-portion.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a cur tain rod bracket having a body-portion, rod-supporting fingers, and finger bases; all formed of a single piece of material, and having said fingers and bases disposed in spaced relation to each. other on opposite sides of a central aperture in said body portion and at an angle to said body portion.

3. The new and improved method of making curtain rod blanks, which consists in cutting a blank medially and lengthwise within its marginal edges to form a plurality of rod-supporting fingers, cutting it transversely from said medial and lengthwise cuts to form a plurality offinger bases, and bending said bases and fingers substantially along. the lines of junction of said bases and blank to an angular position relative to said blank.

4. The new and improved method of mak- 7 ing curtain brackets, which consists in cutting a blank medially and lengthwise within its marginal edges to form reversely positioned rod-supporting fingers, cutting said blank transversely from said medial and lengthwise cuts to form reversely placed finger bases, and bending said bases and fingers away from one another substantially along the line of the junction of said base and blank to an angular position relative to said blank. V

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

AARON 0. some,

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